Bay Pinto Horse
Equus caballus
Mammalia
COMMON
Stats
- Lifespan
- 25-30 yrs
- Size
- Large
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Activity
- Diurnal
- Social
- Herd
- Biome
- Temperate grassland
- Range
- Central Asia
- Movement
- Running
- Breeding
- Live Birth
- Defense
- Speed
- Status
- Common
About
A horse with a reddish-brown bay coat broken up by large patches of white, a pattern created by spotting genes like tobiano or overo layered over the base bay coloring. No two pinto horses share the same pattern, since the white patches are essentially unique markings.
Life cycle
- 1.newborn foalA foal stands and nurses within an hour of birth, long-legged and unsteady at the herd's edge.
- 2.juvenileA weaned juvenile grazes with the herd, develops its adult coat, and tests its speed.
- 3.adultFully grown and at full speed.
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Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Mammalia
- Order
- Perissodactyla
- Family
- Equidae
- Genus
- Equus
- Species
- Equus caballus